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You can find the list of sources that were used to develop this presentation here.
In February, 2020, we w
ere awarded funding to support working with organisations and the London Metropolitan Police to gain and disseminate information on financial abuse of older people. We have been busy gathering information and designing materials that will help inform industry, front-line workers, and older people on the extent that financial abuse of older people takes place, who is targeted, who perpetrates, what the impact of financial crime is and what we can do to identify when financial abuse is occurring and to support older adults.
We have been busy synthesising the research evidence around the financial abuse of older people, reviewing industry and charity policies that help them in identifying and supporting older adults who have been victims of financial abuse, and working with the Metropolitan Police to better understand patterns of financial abuse of older people.
Watch this space for more information coming soon!
Research team includes:
- Professor Dawn Watling – Principal Investigator
- Dr Jennifer Story – Co-Investigator
- Dr Konstantinos Mersinas – Co-Investigator
- Dr Jane Marriot – Co-Investigator
- Dr Karl Wereszczynski – Research Fellow
- Adam Levent – Research Fellow
THE FINANCIAL MISTREATMENT OF OLDER PEOPLE: PREVENTION STRATEGIES
A HIVE RESEARCH PROJECT AND SLIDE PRESENTATION
The research underpinning this presentation was supported through Research England ‘Strategic Knowledge Exchange Collaborations’ Higher Education Innovation Funding. The main aim of the research was to discover and disseminate the range of prevention measures and strategies being proposed and utilised by governments, financial institutions, civil society organisations and the care sector in tackling the financial mistreatment of older adults. We wanted to understand how organisations having to deal with the practicalities of combatting such abuse were undertaking that task. To that end, we analysed policy, guidance and reports which originated from Europe, North America and Australasia and which related to the financial mistreatment of older and vulnerable adults. From our analysis, we identify themes from the patterned responses of organisations to the issue, explore the relationship between themes and consider how they would work together. This enables us to offer a publicly available resource which provides an overview of prevalent strategy and practice in addressing the financial mistreatment of older people in each of the sectors our work identifies as actively seeking to tackle the problem – the Financial, Care, and Government sectors.
The research team comprised Dr Karl Wereszczynski (Lead Researcher), Dr Jane Marriott (Principal Investigator), Professor Dawn Watling, Dr Konstantinos Mersinas and Dr Jennifer Storey (Co-Investigators). A link to the sources for our work is provided both here and at the end of the presentation.